Sergio Garcia has rejoined the DP World Tour as he seeks a European record-equalling eleventh look on the Ryder Cup.
The 44-year-old, who’s already the occasion’s file factors scorer, desires to match Lee Westwood and Sir Nick Faldo’s European benchmark by enjoying subsequent 12 months at Bethpage within the USA.
Nonetheless, with a view to try this, the Spaniard – who joined the breakaway LIV Golf in 2022 – has needed to settle the excellent substantial fines, reported to be over €1m in whole, imposed on him by the tour, and also will need to serve a suspension.
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Garcia resigned his membership in Might 2023 after an arbitration panel present in favour of the DP World Tour and ratified its proper to fantastic and ban gamers who competed in LIV Golf occasions with out permission.
The DP World Tour then revealed Garcia was the one considered one of 17 gamers initially sanctioned to not have paid his fantastic, “nor has he given any indication that he intends to”.
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Garcia had been sanctioned for signing as much as LIV Golf
However the drive to play within the Ryder Cup meant the 2017 Masters champion saved the channels of communication open and he had quite a lot of conversations with captain Luke Donald – reprising his position from Rome two years in the past – leading to Garcia relenting his stance.
“Sergio Garcia submitted his application to return to membership of the DP World Tour for the 2025 season ahead of the deadline on Sunday November 17,” mentioned a DP World Tour spokesman.
“He has paid his fines however must serve his suspensions earlier than he can play on the DP World Tour.
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“He is a member in Category One (reserved for winners of the Race to Dubai Rankings 2017 to 2024 and the four majors from 2017 to 2025) for the 2025 season.”
Donald was requested final month at an occasion in New York to mark lower than a 12 months to go to the 2025 Ryder Cup whether or not he thought Garcia was severe about rejoining the tour.
“Yeah, we chatted on the phone a couple of weeks ago. He’s certainly very interested in doing that,” he mentioned on the time.
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“He understands everything that’s involved and again, the decision has to go to him whether he’s prepared to do all that. But certainly we’ve had that discussion.
“He’d need to observe all the foundations and rules like everybody else and if he does that he will probably be eligible to partake within the Ryder Cup.”
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